Befell means happened or occurred or came to pass. A question might be What tragedy befell Edgar Allan Poe when he was two years old? The answer is His mother and father died. The same question could be asked What happened to Edgar Allan when he was two years old? The same answer would be given: His mother and father died.
To happen or occur
Many sinister occurrences befell the weary travelers as they made their challenging way through the darkness to the sorcerer's domain.
Since befell's definition is for something to happen, the antonym would be something not happening. So antonyms include: clash, deviate, differ, disagree, diverge, mismatch
The past tense of befall is befell.
Befell means happened or occurred or came to pass. A question might be What tragedy befell Edgar Allan Poe when he was two years old? The answer is His mother and father died. The same question could be asked What happened to Edgar Allan when he was two years old? The same answer would be given: His mother and father died.
The plague
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The death of his son Willie in 1862 was surely a personal tragedy.
The 79 CE eruption befell the same fate on Pompeii's neighbouring town of Herculaneum.
This personification is meant to indicate how quickly death befell the Jews of Sighet.
You would elect a new vp but if it were the president the vp would take his place.